Following up on their Hit Graphic Novel, Our Cats More Famous Than Us, Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota offer us more Johnny Wander!   EXCLUSIVE TO LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY®

In 2008, Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota launched the auto-bio webcomic Johnny Wander.   Early this year, Oni published a collection their work entitled Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us.   Eight years, four cats, and three moves were chronicled in the graphic novel with a foreword by Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Ghosts).

Oni is following that Hardcover up with this comic EXCLUSIVELY for Local Comic Shop Day.

Hirsh and Ota’s charming reverie about new adulthood will appeal to fans of Kate Beaton, Bryan Lee O’Malley, and Jeffrey Brown-along with anyone who’s just winging it.

For more information about Johnny Wander:    http://www.johnnywander.com/about

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Marvel Comics to offer a special 999 limited print run of Captain America #395.

To celebrate Local Comic Shop Day®, DC Entertainment is releasing two items.

The first is a 1,000 print run of Batman: Hush 15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition HC.   It has no front cover trade dress and new black and white Jim Lee Cover art.

The second item is a “Lost Variant”.   It is a Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad #1 with cover art by  PAULO PANTALENA.  Print run is 3,000.

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BATMAN: HUSH 15TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION LCSD VERSION HC
Written by JEPH LOEB
Art by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
Cover by JIM LEE
This special version of the new BATMAN: HUSH Deluxe Edition hardcover
features new cover art by Jim Lee presented in black and white with no
front cover trade dress, limited to just 1,000 copies for LCS Day
partipating stores only!
In this classic tale, Batman sets out to learn the identity of the
mysterious villain known as Hush. But Batman ends up facing the most
intense case of his life as secrets from his past flood into the present!
Guest-starring the Dark Knight¹s greatest allies and enemies, this title
presents BATMAN #608-619, a 6-page segment from Wizard #0 and a 2-page
origin story that originally appeared at dccomics.com, collected as a
Deluxe Edition hardcover for the first time, along with a brand-new cover
by superstar artist Jim Lee!
376 pg, FC, 7.0625² x 10.875² € $49.99 US

JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD #1
Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Art by JASON FABOK
Variant cover by PAULO PANTALENA
The debut issue of the smash-hit miniseries that rocked comics shops in
December is back in a special edition with a variant cover by Paulo
Pantalena, available only to LCS Day participating stores only!
The first major event storyline of DC¹s Rebirth era begins with a day
Amanda Waller always knew would come: the Justice League discovers the
existence of the Suicide Squad! This government-sponsored black-ops team
of super-villains with bombs implanted in their brains is obviously a
deal-breaker for Earth¹s paragons of truth and justice! But you can bet
that the Wall and her Task Force X won¹t go down without the fight to end
all fights as this weekly series gets underway!   Print Run is 3,000 units.

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Thor Ragnarok,  in theaters in early November, 2017, will show for the first time planet Sakaar on the big screen.    To tie into the excitement of this movie, Marvel is releasing a special Planet Hulk Hard Cover for Local Comic Shop Day.

With new cover art by Nick Bradshaw, this edition will be the only hard cover treatment of this storyline unless you go up to Omnibus size.

A whole new world of hurt!  Betrayed by Earth’s heroes and exiled into outer space, the man-monster hulk has landed on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King.   Sold into Slavery, Hulk becomes the Green Scar, the planet’s mightiest Gladiator.

Retailers, you have until September 18th to register at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2017

We are super excited!   BOOM! Studios has just announced that they are offering two EXCLUSIVE items for Local Comic Shop Day®!  (A WWE ROYAL RUMBLE PRINT and a SABAN’S POWER RANGERS BLIND BOX).   These instantly collectible items will be available in strictly limited amounts—500 units for the print, and 250 units for the blind box.

The beautifully illustrated WWE ROYAL RUMBLE PRINT ($19.99) by artist Brent Schoonover (Generations: Captain Marvel & Captain Mar-Vell) measures 16” x 20” and is the culmination of 12 connecting covers of BOOM! Studios’ acclaimed WWE comic book series. This frameable image features over three dozen Superstars—including The Ultimate Warrior, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Finn Bálor, and many more—as they battle it out in the Royal Rumble match of fans’ dreams.

Each SABAN’S POWER RANGERS BLIND BOX ($99.99) contains a copy of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Year One: Deluxe hardcover; a limited-edition Mighty Morphin Power Rangers lithograph by Acme Archives featuring one of the Rangers, including rare Green and White Rangers; and two random, limited-edition variant covers from previous Mighty Morphin Power Rangers issues. In addition, 25 random blind boxes will contain copies of the hardcover signed by Saban Brands—Haim Saban (Creator of the Power Rangers franchise), Brian Casentini (Executive Producer, Power Rangers content), Melissa Flores (Director, Power RangersContent), and Judd “Chip” Lynn (Executive Producer, Power Rangers television series)—the company behind Power Rangers.

For more information, please click here.

Retailers, you have until September 18th, 2017 to register at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2017.

Mike Allred has completed a special Local Comic Book Day variant for Jeff Lemire and David Rubin’s Sherlock Frankenstein & The Legion of Evil #1.

To read more about this awesome project, read these two articles.

First from Newsarama.

https://www.newsarama.com/36290-mike-allred-visits-sherlock-frankenstein-for-local-comic-shop-day-variant.html

And also this one from CBR.

EXCL.: Meet the Characters of Sherlock Frankenstein & The Legion of Evil

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Optimus Prime: First Strike #1 Local Comic Shop Day Variant

John Barber (w) • Guido Guidi (a) • Paolo Villanelli (c)

With Cybertron under siege by Baron Ironblood’s forces, Optimus Prime and Arcee defend their homeland! Caught in the middle is the human/Transformer team known as the Revolutionaries—and one of them has a secret that puts everyone at risk!

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Limited to 1,000

Retailers, you have until September 18th, 2017 to register at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2017.

Retailer registration is now open for Local Comic Shop Day® participation, as announced by ComicsPRO, the comics specialty trade association. The event is scheduled for Saturday November 18, 2017, with retailers strongly advised to register now to be eligible to order all LCSD items. 



Retailers can register their stores’ participation at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2017.

The registration deadline is September 18th, but early registration is highly encouraged. Limited edition items are distributed in an equitable manner to all fully registered retailers, but early registration gives retailers priority for the allocation of any available extras.Local Comic Shop Day® gives participating retailers the benefit of being able to order a selection of LIMITED and/or UNIQUE comics, graphic novels, and other exclusive collectibles for the event.

Participating LCSD retailers also get:

• Online access to advertising materials
• Ability to order special LCSD event printed bags from supplier American Retail Supply
• Facebook advertising targeting comics and pop culture lovers in their shop’s zip code
• Direct access to artist/author conference calls that ComicsPRO holds throughout the year.

Local Comic Shop Day® is an event spotlighting locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their unique and vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture. The 3rd annual LCSD is November 18th – the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

Local Comic Shop Day® also showcases the SHOP LOCAL movement. Studies have shown that when consumers buy from locally owned retailers, rather than nationally owned firms or online retailers, revenue stays local to help with schools, first responders and other community services.

“Local Comic Shop Day® as an opportunity to do more than merely selling limited and exclusive items… but it is that, too. LCSD creates a platform for comic shop owners to show their local community the unique and attractive features of their local comic shop,” said Peter Dolan, President of ComicsPRO. “LCSD is a great opportunity to schedule signings, sales, raffles, cosplay, and tournaments. Local Comic Shop Day® is designed to be every local comic book store’s pre-Holiday open house.”

Local Comic Shop Day® is open to all qualified local comic shops. A Local Comic Shop is defined as a brick and mortar business selling a substantial amount and/or percentage of comics and graphic novels. Qualifying comic specialty shops must be locally owned, not be publicly traded, and not have more than 35 storefronts.

The licensing fee to participate in Local Comic Shop Day is $29 for single storefronts and $49 for multi-store operations. This fee helps to fund the production of the event including promotion, marketing, web design, and auditing.

The first exclusive Local Comic Shop Day® items to be announced are:

• Valiant Entertainment’s Secret Weapons Deluxe Edition Hardcover. This oversized hardcover collects Valiant’s sold-out, critically acclaimed series and will not be available for sale anywhere else. This hardcover arrives weeks before the Secret Weapons TPB arrives in stores in December.
  http://localcomicshopday.com/secret-weapons-deluxe-edition…/

• Titan’s Robotech LCSD Kerschl Super-Pack. This item exclusively features Robotech issues #1-4 with all the covers by artist Karl Kerschl, plus a very limited virgin Kerschl variant cover. This item is limited to 700 Super-Packs available worldwide on LCSD. This item has a suggested retailer price of $20. http://localcomicshopday.com/2359-2/

• IDW’s Star Wars Adventures #1. IDW is offering Star Wars Adventures #1.   This LIMITED edition comic has a 5,000 unit print run

http://localcomicshopday.com/idw-lcsd-2017-offering-star-wars-adventures-1/

More LCSD exclusive items are to be announced soon.

Retailers, register now at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2017

For LCSD 2017, IDW is offering Star Wars Adventures #1.   This LIMITED edition comic has a 5,000 unit print run and may be ALLOCATED.

Star Wars Adventures #1
Jim Zub, John Layman (w) • Derek Charm, Eric Jones (a) • Chris Samnee (cover art)
Introducing an exciting new era in all-ages Star Wars comics! Each issue in this monthly series will feature two stories, starring your favorite Star Wars characters from all the films! This debut issue will reveal Rey’s early adventures on Jakku as well as a comical tale of clone catastrophe!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Retailers, you have until September 18th, 2017 to register at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2017